Music, Dignity, and Learning, an Exploration of a Music Ethos

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fourteen
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Explorations of Multimodal Practices and Pedagogies (Table 16)

Abstract

Dignity-affirming music pedagogy extends beyond learning to make music- towards centering music as an integral part of learning and connecting us as humans. This study explores adolescent youth’s experiences with music in a maker space. It focuses on how participants engage with music in a space where learners (who are not studying traditional western music) encounter musical experiences. Of particular interest is what the nuances of listening to and making music might teach us about how youth experience music in these learning environments. This is important because if we can understand ‘the how’ of music experience in these spaces, learning scientists can begin to design dignity-affirming pedagogies that intentionally leverage the benefits of music.

Authors

• Melanie West, Northwestern University
  Presenting Author

• Melita Morales, Northwestern University
  Presenting Author

• Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Michael S. Horn, Northwestern University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Samual Carrol, McGaw YMCA
  Presenting Author